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    “What is there to talk about?”

    “What’s there to talk about?!” Hollander scoffed, shaking his head. “You’re playing for my fucking team!”

    “I know.”

    “Why did you have to go and get traded?! You realise we’re going to have to see each other every day from now on, and play together, and-”

    “Yes,” Ilya interrupted. He didn’t want to know how long Hollander’s list was. “I know.”

    Hollander took a deep breath. “Okay, listen,” he said. “Just so we’re clear - we don’t know each other outside of playing against each other, right?”

    “Right.”

    “And we can’t- can’t hook up anymore.”

    ~

    OR: Ilya gets traded to Montreal in October 2014. He's lonely, and angry, and he misses Boston. He doesn't know if it helps that Hollander is there or not.

    title from Buckle by Florence and the Machine

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    15 Jun 2026

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    When they’re on the forecastle, with the helm just behind them and the figurehead casting them further in shadow, Usopp calls, “Raise the sails!”

    Luffy’s gasp next to his ear is the best part of his entire day. 

    The sails unfold in a great rolling crash of canvas. Even the striped gaff swings out, catching the wind. The whole sloop gives a powerful lurch as if she’s eager to sprint out of port on the back of whatever gale blows along next. 

    And painted on the foresail, bold and bright and proud, is a grinning Jolly Roger in a yellow straw hat. 

    “That’s mine,” Luffy whispers, hushed and awed. 

    “Told you so,” Usopp says smugly. 

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    13 Jun 2026

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    “—and you were so cool! You took down almost as many marines as me!”
    Zoro snapped his eyes open. “What do you mean ‘almost’? I took down more than you!”
    “Nope!” Luffy replied simply, beaming at Zoro bright as the sun.
    “What, you counted them?”

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    Or: The Strawhats keep a KO-count. It escalates—along with other things.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Luffy alone is a scrappy, tougher than he has the right to be, wild card of a kid who will cause chaos in any fight he throws himself into.

    Luffy with his crew is somewhere between a force of nature and an act of God - so determined it feels like fate itself has submitted to his whims. So it is a really good thing the Strawhat Pirates would never let their captain go to war by himself, isn’t it? They'll need to pull off a few miracles to get Ace out of Marineford alive, after all.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    After Ace's rescue from Marinford, the Straw Hats hitch a ride on the Moby Dick so Luffy can check up on his brother... and because they forgot to secure transportation of their own.

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    31 May 2026